Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hair), were greeted by Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr., and Brigadier General Patrick Jay Hurley, were instantly voted the two most exotic good neighbors of the 1943 Washington social whirl. Hostesses would soon learn that as Wahhabis ("Puritan" Moslems) the two Princes can neither smoke nor drink...
...North Africa, the Nazis launched their Nebelwerfer (smoke thrower), a multibarreled, rocket-propelled mortar which U.S. and British troops dubbed "screaming meemie." Set off electrically, its rocket shells fling long fingers of metal...
...white city on a blue gulf. Beside it rose Vesuvius, breathing a plume of smoke. Around its feet clustered warships, steamers, merchantmen from Mediterranean ports. It was ancient. Virgil had lived in the city when he wrote his Georgics. Cicero had loafed among the villas. On its outskirts were the ancient suburbs of Herculaneum and Pompeii, which had been mummified 1,860 years ago by Vesuvius' erupting ash. It was a sight, a pile of palaces, churches, an opera house, university, museum, an aquarium where famous pale octopuses swam in tanks. It was slovenly and filthy and loud. Hoarse...
...tank suddenly wheeled and fired. In the blinding explosion Alexander Austin and two of his friends came to the end of the road of death. When the smoke and dust had cleared, only Basil Gingell was alive...
Personal Touch. The commander who drilled the Fifth is no martinet. He drove himself, as well as his troops, hard. But in a relaxed sort of way. He does not stomp or rage-or even smoke to ease his nerves. The tauter Mark Clark feels, the quieter he usually becomes. But what he says then in his resonant voice may have a steely edge, and his long legs may take longer, caged-lion strides. He does not have General Patton's histrionic flair, or General Eisenhower's command of expletives. Yet he can let off steam with...